It is the supreme art of the teacher to awaken joy in creative expression and knowledge. |
There could be no fairer destiny for any physical theory than that it should point the way to a more comprehensive theory in which it lives on as a limiting case. |
The man of science is a poor philosopher. |
It stands to the everlasting credit of science that by acting on the human mind it has overcome man's insecurity before himself and before nature. |
If we knew what it was we were doing, it would not be called research, would it? |
I want to know all Gods thoughts; all the rest are just details. |
Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind. |
Only a life lived for others is a life worthwhile. |
Make everything as simple as possible, but not simpler. |
It is strange to be known so universally and yet to be so lonely. |
You can never solve a problem on the level on which it was created. |
I am a deeply religious nonbeliever - this is a somewhat new kind of religion. |
To raise new questions, new possibilities, to regard old problems from a new angle, requires creative imagination and marks real advance in science. |
The monotony and solitude of a quiet life stimulates the creative mind. |
Once we accept our limits, we go beyond them. |
Confusion of goals and perfection of means seems, in my opinion, to characterize our age. |
Try not to become a man of success, but rather try to become a man of value. |
One strength of the communist system of the East is that it has some of the character of a religion and inspires the emotions of a religion. |
We should take care not to make the intellect our god; it has, of course, powerful muscles, but no personality. |
Memory is deceptive because it is colored by today's events. |